On its summit is a heap of stones overshaded by a very large wild pistachio tree.

The island ends in sand dunes covered by salt scrub and pistachio trees.

From thence a fertile tract commences, overgrown with many Bouttom (Arabic) or wild pistachio trees.

Eastward, over vast orchards of pistachio trees, the barren plain of the Euphrates fades away to a glimmering, hot horizon.

Wild pistachio trees abound;